Doctor insights on:
What Is A Good Diet For Laryngopharyngeal Reflux

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Tricks to help GERD:
Over 70 million americans have gerd, and most will benefit from acid blocker medications. Behavior and diet can help by minimizing dietary fats and grease, mints, alcohol, tobacco, spicy and large volume meals, caffeine, chocolate. Minimize salicylates (like aspirin), avoid laying down or bending over 2-3 hours after eating, cut out bedtime snacks, and keep your weight under control. Good luck!
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refers to all the physical matter humans (like all living creatures) must take in on a recurring basis; only partially for energy. Like all life on planet humans are open systems which keep tearing down their structure & require intake of atoms/molecules from which to rebuild their structure. Intestinal lining cells replaced ~every 3 days. CaPO4 in bones ~every 6 years, Everything else in between.
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Depends:
Avoid alcohol and consider going gluten and dairy free. If you are gluten sensitive, it can beat up your gut. Healing can take at least 6 months, and often longer. Also consider other food sensitivities.
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LPR:
Diet is important, particularly avoidance of caffeine. This includes decaffeinated products. In addition you can consider taking Prilosec otc 1/2-1 hour before breakfast and dinner. It can weeks or even months to improve, but the only way to really know about damage is to see and ENT doc or GI doc with knowledge of this entity.
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Is your reflux:
being treated? If the acid is under control, your sore throat should get better also. I would recommend follow up with your primary care doctor or a gastroenterology specialist if it's not improving. You also could see an ear, nose and throat specialist, who may want to look with a scope to see exactly what's going on.
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Control, no cure:
First see an ENT and/or GI doc to present them your symptoms - and after this has been diagnosed and everything else has been ruled out - the GI doc will probably give you medications, diet advice and possilbe weight loss advice to control your reflux.
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Acid reflux:
Generally no. Some people control with diet control and others with meds. See a GI for an upper endoscopy to look at the esophagus and stomach and have an ENT look at your throat and vocal cords.
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Acid reflux is defined as the presence of acidic gastric contents in the esophagus causing irritation. It's cause is blamed on the a lax gastroesophageal shpincter that permits usch regurgitation. Vesicoureteral reflux is regurgitation (backing up) of urine in the bladder into the ureter through the vesicoureteral junction.
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